Schools Within RIDBC
Today there are three specialist schools within RIDBC:
- The RIDBC Alice Betteridge School, for children with sensory and intellectual disabilities (renamed from "The Special School for Multi-handicapped Blind Students" in 1990).
- The RIDBC Garfield Barwick School, for "oral" deaf children who communicate using speech and assisted hearing. Opened in 1988 as a primary school to prepare deaf students for a mainstream high school.
- The RIDBC Thomas Pattison School, which provides education in Auslan, Australia's deaf sign language. Established in 1992 as the "Thomas Pattison Annexe", renamed as a school in 1997.
Read more about this topic: Royal Institute For Deaf And Blind Children
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